Reverse Meal Planning

EssexHebridean

Ooh good reminder on the mustardy greens recipe - that went down well with most of us didn't it! 

(And what I do with recipes that get recommended here is to paste the link to them into an email to  myself with the subject line "Recipe: [insert name of recipe]" - means I can easily find what I'm looking for just with a quick search.)

An old favourite with us last night - spaghetti with sardines and butterbeans. A proper storecupboard faithful as it uses tinned sardines in tommy sauce, tinned butterbeans and a tin of chopped tomatoes alongside the fresh veg and dried pasta. 

This evening I'm planning on playing about with a fish curry - it'll be vaguely thai inspired, and I actually have some fresh lemongrass to use which I'm delighted about - this is thanks to T's offer of 3 packets of fresh herbs for £1. It'll also get some onion, pepper and mushrooms thrown in I think, plus a tin of coconut milk. (Might switch the mushrooms for sweetcorn in which case the mushrooms will need chopping and roasting or frying off.) Another small spoonful of the ever lasting red curry paste will be going into it, too...

Suffolk_lass

I searched "mustardy greens" in the 'search the forum' bit in the teal coloured bar above where it tells you which bit of the forum you are in

Suffolk_lass

I'm just about to honour the principle of reverse meal planning - I am putting on the gloves to chest-freezer dive for a joint of beef I believe is in there. I will report back...

Suffolk_lass

Reverse Meal Easter - Found it! 1.35kg of British slow-roast joint of beef was on offer at £7 per kilo. This piece was originally £9.44, reduced YS to £4.72. I have potatoes, carrots, and cabbage in stores, also a butternut squash I grew can sub for parsnip. I will make my own Yorkshire pudding to cook in the meat tray, have goose fat I saved from the Christmas Goose for roast veg, and I am off out to pick some new season rhubarb from the garden to have in a crumble.

While I was in the freezer I spotted two rolls in with the meat so they are in a bag defrosting ready for supper this evening, and we will have them toasted with the big burgers I bought, and a small salad of just lettuce and coleslaw and fresh pickled red onion (I slice in rounds, sprinkle with a teaspoon of sugar and sprinkle over white vinegar; the pink vinegar it makes is lovely too) - come to think of it, I might see if there are any of last year's beetroot in the ground, while I am out there.

rtandon27

Well impressed with your Easter freezer dive!

EssexHebridean

nice work there SL! 

I seem to have spent much of the weekend coming up with stuff to put into the freezer! Big pot of yellow split peas cooked - partly used in soup and also several tubs frozen for use later. A ham cooked - some eaten over the weekend, some has gone into the soup with the split peas, and some into the freezer, some of the soup has been frozen, and I've got a leg of lamb I've cooked that still needs slicing up and freezing too! 

Did get a quiche out yesterday for lunch along with a pasta salad which also incorporated some roast tomatoes and roast mushrooms from the freezer as well. The quiche was YS'd and cost a grant total of 79p - and as it will also do us for tea tonight I'm pretty happy with that! 

rtandon27

Tonight's dinner will be Mushroom & Blue Cheese Risotto - reverse planned of course - lol - butter & blue cheese from a 2good2go bag, shallots, garlic & dried parsley from the stores - the last of the risotto rice & double cream and assorted yellow sticker mushrooms

Suffolk_lass

We have had seven portions from the piece of beef now (3 roast, two sandwiches, two meals with salad, jacket potatoes and pickles [our favourite]) there is about 1.5cm of the joint left. I'm tempted to mince/chop it and make some cottage pie but we also like chilli and curry and there isn't enough for all of these. Even with lentils added. 

So, I did ask DH. Cottage pie and chilli to be compiled when it is not such nice weather as this morning

EssexHebridean

The quiche was had with jacket tatties (they're sprouting so need used up now) and sweetcorn last night and was suitably tasty. This evening is a nice quick tea of some of the pea & ham soup with YS'd multiseeded rolls from the freezer. LOVE a quick tea for a mid week night!

Still need to come up with something for tomorrow - but it should probably use some of the lamb, really... 

rtandon27

My reverse meal planning conundrum involves what seems like hundreds of self-seeded parsnips in the garden!!!  As I pull them up, many are too small to be good for anything but compost, but several are huge gnarly things that will need a good scrubbing.  OH refuses to deal with them as they are 'too much work' so I'm left to wrestle them into a soup.  Any thoughts ladies, on something a bit more creative, they are fairly strong both in flavour and scent! Think of them as super charged, over the top parsnips!

On a completely unrelated note...
We bought two loaves of Mr. S own brand bread yesterday, 800g each - one was half & half and labelled as medium and had 20 slices in it, the other a seeded loaf, also 20 slices but labelled as thick! - We are both confused - they seem to be identical in weight & thickness - any thoughts or is this just a case of marketing craziness?